Style: an overused word these days, to be sure. Not all style is good, but all style expresses individuality, and these pages express mine. Style is not about impressing other people, it's not about fashion or about wealth;
it's about how you live your life with what you can have. Here, you be the judge. ～Hooman Majd.

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The Vest

I’m not fond of the suit vest worn jacket-less, or the waistcoat-on-its-own look, popularized, it seems, by Brooklyn bartenders to match their impressive beards and mustaches. But while bartenders have worn a waistcoat and tie for generations (and wore impressive mustaches in the early 20th Century), it’s not a flattering look if one is not mixing drinks—and was even less flattering in the hippie days when it seemed a suit vest and flared jeans, along with the requisite shoulder length hair, was de rigueur.

I’m also not fond of the puffy vest—seemingly a trend impossible to erase—which does little to keep a pedestrian warm and is useful only if one is engaged in hard labor—construction workers come to mind. But there is, however, a place for a vest on slightly cooler days, or layered under a topcoat on even colder ones, something woolen and not styled as a waistcoat might be. This one is a Persian peasant’s vest—camelhair with a cotton lining—that is worn in colder weather by farm workers who need their arms free to do work. Similar vests can be seen, and bought, throughout South Asia, in case that visa for Iran hasn’t come through yet….

While I find a 3 piece suit, with all three pieces, very classy and practical for cooler months, I’ve never understood vest jackets (unless you were working and moving your arms alot). I’ve never thought to myself, “boy, my torso is cold, but my arms are warm, do they make something for that?”.